New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-02-16
SHAMs AND FRAUDS.
Some Unvarn1shed Truths About
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Some Unvarnished Truths About
sssassiety'' at the National Capital.
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equal amount OF wealth to support It IN
two-thirds of the cases. The majority
of those who shine in society and are
the most nron,inent and irranrassihle
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ana u taxes close management TO make
them suffice for plain living and place
i'll society. Many OF the Senators are
wealthy; but they are the only ones, as
a class, who have great wealth; and
the moneyed people, as the r.ch winter
residents who come only as private cit
lzens are called a. are cas- counted.
Eacn season w ashlngton runs over
with helresses. ana Pennies girls, and
widows who come to Washington as to
a great matrimonial market, and wear
themselves half out IN the struggle to
get INTO ana keep n society. hlch men
never come TO hunt tor wives IN this
modern smlthtleld, and when New
OK mlllonaife ana take Washing
ton pr.de IL was pretty grll IN strait
ehed circumstances, VINO had never
peen known IN the society army ana
navy germans and legation balls.
1oungg army and naval oihcers are the
most mos I, mefclnafy lot OF all, and they IN
Variaoly save up 1nelr leaves OF ab-
sehce 10 speho tnem IN WashingGon
curing the winter montns. One ms
cfeant IN epaulets once horrl1led some
married ladles py saying: 1T pays us
poor fellows on snort commons to pass
season IN washington sending bo-
qaets ana spend al our money on the
glfis, Ior an 1ne flcn girls go thefe,
ana their fortunes are only equivalents
1or the social position that we can
give them-
Sometimes these gay spectators get
terribly solo, as not every papa that
passes Ior a mllllonalre IS really one,
ana heiress is a name very easily TICK
ecu 10 gitl VINO dresses Well. he
Gently there has been a notorious case
OF one OF these uniformed fortune
hunters gettng the supposed heiress
after a long SIEGE only to ind too late
Ihat the fortune was AL IN the ar, van
lshed. gone up ike smoke. 10 balance
THIS there IS the case OF another young
officer, who. although engaged to
great helress now IN Europe finishing
her French and buying her trousseau.
longs to be released from those golden
letters to marry penniless orphan en-
ployed in one OF the departments here.
People who believe in the old-fashioned
love stories admire and sympathize
deeply with this crooked course OF true
love, out MS brother oincers think the
distracted youth a plain and simple
lunatic.
A joke is often told on one very
punctlllous army officer, who in the
course OF frontier experiences found
his ex-laundress the wife OF a Congress
man. The laundress' rise and the
growth OF her husband fortune could
not bring the ladies OF the fort to rec
ognize her, and this particular officer,
although now General, could remem-
Der some stormy scenes, when, as a
poor young Lieutenant, he had scored
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